The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03

to poll its republican readers in the
country to learn the drift of republican
sentiment. 1t tends all one way. y
Probably nobody doubts that if the re-
publican convention should be held
tomorrow it would break out irrepres-
sibly into shouts for Blaine and he
would be nominated by reclamation.
Certainly nobody supposes that there
would be any enthusiasm whatever for
Sherman, or Allison, or Harrison, or
for any one but Blaine.-Ho,per's
Weekly (mugoump).
WHEN we consider the patronage of
this great office, the allurements of
power, the temptation to retain place
once gained, and, more than all, the
availability a party finds in an incum-
bent whom a horde of office hoders.
with zeal born of benefits and fos-
tered by the hope of favors yet to come,
stand ready to aid with money and
trained political service, we recognize
in the eligibility of the president for
reelection most serious danger to the
calm, deliberate and intelligent polit-
ical action which must characterize a
government by the people. n-Grover
Clereland in 1884. There has evidently
been a change in Mr.. Cleveland's views
since 1884. Now there is reason to be-
lieve that he is using the patronage of
this great office " for all it is worth to
secure denomination.
SPEAKING of waving the "bloodv
Shirt" Colonel w. p. Canady of North
Carolina says: Gas matter of fact.
the rebel bloody shirt is the stock-in-
trade of ninety-nine out of one hundred
of the orators of the South to-day.
You can go to county fair and hear
an address, or to college commence
ment and hear orations, or to public
gatherings and hear a speech. or at
tend any kind of public occasion
where there is speech making, and YOU
will hear the lost cause alluded to in
some form or another as thing to be
glorilied, remembered and treasured
1t is the one thing that the southern
orator keeps on hand as a sort of stock
in-trade, and his appeal is to the old
confederate element to stand together
and make common cause against north
ern politicians and the northern policy
OF government.
THE number of mich cows in the
country is estimated at q 900 900.
They give each an average of $50 GAL
Ions of milk annually. This would
make an aggregate milk production of
1850, 900, 900 gallons, a miniature ocean.
fair-sized Niagara. Four thousand
m g..
100000, 900 for cheese and the remain
ing 2,4SO,O0O, 900 pass through the
adulterating hands of the milkman and
grocer and down the Threats of 60.OOO,-
600 men, women and babies in this land
of freedom. The quantity of butter
manufactured and used is about .35O.-
100000 pounds, and of cheese, 6, 800 900
pounds. The value of our dairy prod
ucts for the last twelve months was
nearly $500 100000. This is SOC. OOO.-
600 more than the value of our annual
wheat yield, while it closely approx
mates that Of our corn crop, which is
the most valuable of our farm products.
To support this immense dairy herd
100, O00,0 900 acres of pasture land are
required, worth 81, 800, 900 ,O0O.-Nep
York Herald.
THE last Andorer Reciew opens with
an important article by John w. Bur-
CESS of Columbia College on the " Le-
gal Status of Religious Organizations"
1t only opens discussion which must
be thorough and far-reaching. In this
country the highest court has decided
that the Interpretation which the high
est church judicatory puts on its own
powers, within legal limits, is final.
Professor Burgess criticises that prin-
ciple. In case referred to "the
court refused to investigate the con-
stitution altogether, and thus attributed
to one party to the contract the power
to bind the other by its own er parte,
and possibly unconstitutional, interpre-
tation of the same" Regarding re-
ligious organizations as quasi-public
bodies, he says: " If they be recog-
nized as in possession of fuller powers
over their members than private asso-
Citations may legally exercise, then
must the government in the modern
state hold a veto over their acts and a
control over their administration. so
far as it may regard these as necessary
to protect the civil and political rights
of the individual members and secure
the peace and welfare of the state"